Indians Prospect Insider

Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player played in yesterday's game.
Chun Chen, DH-Kinston: 2-3, 2 2B, 2 RBI, 2 BB, 2 R
Its only been 16 games, but an .887 OPS for a 21-year old catcher in the Carolina League is pretty good. Chen has 10 RBI since the call to Kinston,...

Paul Cousineau and I are back on the cyberwaves tonight with another edition of "Smoke Signals" from 9:30-10:30 PM EST.
I am back and settled in from my two week excursion to the Gulf and East Coast. Just in time too to talk tonight about any action the Indians may be in on with trades. We already saw infielder Jhonny Peralta get dealt yesterday, so we will surely discuss that deal and any...

Marson and Phelps key Clippers victory
Lou Marson is known for his defense around the Indians organization, but not much for his offense. On Wednesday night, he made the naysayers think twice, as he recorded two hits and two RBI's in a Clippers, 6-4 win.
Marson's first hit came in the fourth inning as he doubled to left field, scoring Cord Phelps from second base who was hit by a...

The Cleveland Indians today announced the club has traded infielder Jhonny Peralta and cash to the Detroit Tigers in exchange for minor league left-handed pitcher Giovanni Soto. To take Peralta's place on the Indians active 25-man roster, infielder Luis Valbuena has been recalled from Triple-A Columbus.
Soto, 19, has spent the entire season to date with Class A West Michigan, going 6-6 with...

"Minor Happenings" is a weekly column which covers the important developments and news in the Indians farm system. While most of the information in this report is from my own research and through interviews I have conducted with organizational personnel, some information in this report is collected and summarized from the various news outlets that cover each team.
Okay, as mentioned over the...

Jared Goedert, 3B-Columbus: 1-3, HR (17), R, RBI, 2 BB, K
First HR in a while for Goedert. After popping 10 in June, he has "just" 7 in the month of July. His OPS for the month is still over 1.000, and his overall OPS for the Clippers stands at a robust 1.049. He's becoming more patient at the plate as well; of his 21 BB for Columbus, 7 of them have come in his last 8 games.
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The Midwest League has announced that Low-A Lake County right-handed pitcher Brett Brach was named their Pitcher of the Week winning for July 19-25.
Brach threw the Captains first complete game shutout this season on July 24 vs. Peoria going nine shutout innings and allowing seven hits, one walk, and had five strikeouts. He threw 97 pitches in total, 61 for strikes. He induced 10 groundball...

While the big league games are not recapped daily here at the IPI, I just wanted to give a big shout out to one of the IPI's proudest sons right-handed pitcher Josh Tomlin for an OUTSTANDING effort on Tuesday night against the reigning World Champion New York Yankees.
To go out and face the minimum through six shutout innings and ultimately going 7+ innings and allowing just one run on three...

Today the Cleveland Indians announced they have purchased the contract of right-handed pitcher Josh Tomlin from Triple-A Columbus. To make room on the Major League roster outfielder Michael Brantley was optioned to Columbus following last night’s game. To make room on the 40-man roster, infielder Wes Hodges was designated for assignment. Tomlin will make his Major League debut tonight as he starts...

The Aeros took on mighty division leading Altoona earlier last week and it was just as if they had been playing last place Erie. The Aeros swept the Curve out of town and put a nice dent into their division lead. As it stands now, the club is just a game back of Bowie and five games back of Altoona after they dropped two to Reading in a four, make it three, game series. Akron fell to Reading in...

Brown, Valbuena power Clippers, again
Luis Valbuena homered twice and Jordan Brown added another, plus another bases-loaded hit, as Columbus swept Pawtucket out of town, 11-7, in front a record-setting crowd of 12,517 Monday night at Huntington Park.
The Clippers jumped out to an early lead with four runs in the first inning, including two on a Brown single, which made him 11-for-14...

Cleveland Indians pitcher Anthony Reyes will continue his rehab assignment Tuesday night with the Akron Aeros at Canal Park. Reyes will start tomorrow in Akron’s matchup against the Bowie Baysox and is Sunday afternoon’s expected starter as well. The right-hander underwent Tommy John reconstructive elbow surgery on June 12th, 2009 and will initially be on a three-inning or 50-pitch limit, whichever...

Clippers get big hit, hang on for 5-4 win
When Jordan Brown's baseball career is complete, he could become a mail carrier, as he continues to deliver in the clutch with the bases loaded. He delivered again on Sunday night against the Pawtucket Red Sox in the fifth inning with a bases-clearing double, propelling Columbus to a 5-4 victory.
Brown's three-run double highlighted a four-run...

The trade deadline is less than a week away.
For various reasons the July 31st non-waiver trade deadline has come to be known as the most relevant time of the year for Tribe fans. It’s the time when the Indians are staples at the top of the ESPN broadcasts and the talk of a lot of baseball people throughout the game. Of course, it is unfortunately because they are having to trade off soon-to-be...

Aeros Soar Past R-Phils 12-1 Saturday Night
Yohan Flande struggled on the mound on Saturday evening -- Akron starter Alex White, however, shined.
White (6-4, 1.48) tossed seven impressive innings, Beau Mills, John Drennen, and Jerad Head each homered, and the Akron Aeros pummeled the R-Phils 12-1 in game three of their four-game set from FirstEnergy Stadium in Reading on Saturday night.

I am on my way home from a family vacation and will be attending games in Kinston, North Carolina this weekend to see the Indians High-A affiliate in action. It's nice to be back into the mix completely re-energized for the stretch run of the season we have coming up these last 6-8 weeks.
I am caught up on all the happenings while I was away, and once I get home late Sunday night I will be...

"Indians Minor League Magazine" is a half hour program on the Cleveland Indians cable network SportsTime Ohio (STO) which airs weekly on Tuesday nights from 6:00-6:30 PM EST. The show recaps all of the highlights from the week that was in the Cleveland Indians farm system with lots of video, interviews, and in-studio guests.
The show recaps the week that was in the system and also features...

Clippers take both against Red Sox
It was a two-for-one deal at Huntington Park on Friday night for the Columbus Clippers, as the Clippers won two games in a matter of hours against the Pawtucket Red Sox. The Clippers won a game that was postponed from June 20, 6-3 against Pawtucket and then followed that up with a 5-3 win in the nightcap.
In the suspended game, the Clippers resumed...

As I begin another round of video taking - starting with this weekend in Kinston - here are some scouting videos I shot of several players in Columbus, Akron, and Lake County in June that have been on my You Tube page but I have not posted on the IPI yet.
Players shot include: Jared Goedert (Akron & Columbus), Jordan Brown (Columbus), Cord Phelps (Akron & Columbus), Nick Weglarz (Columbus),...

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